Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than most heroes of this spring's novels, Chick Swallow deserves a wide hearing. His troubles may not be every man's, but every man will understand them. He is modest: "I think I can say my childhood was as unhappy as the next braggart's." He is reflective: "Man is not a donkey lured along by a carrot dangled in front of his nose, but a jet plane propelled by his exhaust." And the surest guarantee that his difficulties will induce immoderate laughter is the fact that he is the creature of Peter De Vries...
...Dartmouth, and Wise Acres no nearer the boards, Chick and Nickie watch the hidden land mines of life blowing up all around them. Having told himself, "I must under no condition marry this girl," Chick does marry his beautiful but dumb childhood sweetheart, Crystal. What is more, babies follow. Chick's father-in-law, who runs the advice column for the local paper, gets him a job writing Pepigrams ("All work and no play make Jack"). And then the old boy dies "on third" of a heart attack during a charity softball game, and Chick inherits the advice column...
...almost entirely conscious, develops from experience and reason, deals with perception of the environment, tries to go about governing id. Superego, largely unconscious, sits as judge, decides whether or not ego may permit id the gratification it seeks; it is conscience, made up of attitudes absorbed unwittingly in childhood and (to a much less extent) of attitudes consciously learned or adopted later...
Guards Lieut. Colonel Harold Phillips and his wife Georgina, a childhood playmate of Elizabeth...
...Autherine Lucy, first suspended and then expelled from the University of Alabama as its celebrated first Negro student, announced that she would reapply for admission after her spring wedding to the Rev. Howard Foster, 27, a childhood friend from Shiloh, Miss. "I have a feeling I would be accepted by the majority of students at Alabama," she said. If the university still refuses her admission, she will apply at another school...